MACAO, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Visitor arrivals to Macao surged by 23.2 percent month-to-month to 3,154,291 in October 2018, corresponding to a year-on-year increase of 9.2 percent, due to the National Day holiday and the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistic department said here on Friday.

The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that overnight visitors (1,549,891) and same-day visitors (1,604,400) grew by 5.4 percent and 13.2 percent respectively year-on-year.

The average length of stay of visitors held steady year-on-year at 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors rising by 0.1 day to 2.3 days and that of same-day visitors staying at 0.2 day.

Visitors from Chinese mainland increased by 12.1 percent year-on-year to 2,306,844 in October, mainly from Guangdong Province (1,001,563) and Hunan Province (110,850). Visitors from Hong Kong SAR (509,369) rose by 9.3 percent, whereas those from South Korea (60,240) and China's Taiwan region (81,846) dropped by 25.2 percent and 3.9 percent respectively.

Meanwhile, visitors from the U. S. (18,404), Australia (8,254) and Britain (5,741) registered year-on-year increases, while those from Canada (6,320) decreased.

In the first ten months of 2018, visitor arrivals totaled 28,967,555, up by 8.4 percent year-on-year. Overnight visitors (15,162,438) and same-day visitors (13,805,117) grew by 7.5 percent and 9.4 percent respectively.

The average length of stay of visitors went up by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.3 days, with that of overnight visitors (2.2 days) rising by 0.1 day and that of same-day visitors (0.2 day) remaining unchanged.

Visitors from Chinese mainland (20,527,999) increased by 13.1 percent, while those from South Korea (667,941), Hong Kong SAR (5,055,123) and China's Taiwan region (885,833) dropped by 7.8 percent, 1.3 percent and 0.2 percent respectively.

Visitors from the U. S. (159,661), Australia (71,828) and Britain (46,948) recorded year-on-year growth, whereas those from Canada (58,116) saw decrease.